Najwa Kawar Farah (), (April 30, 1923 - August 1, 2015) was a

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educator and writer. She was born Najwa Kawar in

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and was educated there, later attending the Teachers' Academy in

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. She taught school in Nazareth. She married Reverend Rafiq Farah in 1950; the couple produced the magazine ''al-Ra'id'' in 1967. Farah also wrote articles for the press and for radio. She lived in

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until the mid-1960s, when she left the region. The family moved to Jerusalem in 1965, then to

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in 1977 and to

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in 1986. Since 1998, they lived in

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in Ontario, Canada. She died on August 1, 2015, in Toronto, Canada.

Selected works

Source: * Abiru al-sabil'' (The passersby), short stories (1954) * ''Durub masabih'' (Lamp paths), short stories (1956) * ''Mudhakkirat rihla'' (Memoirs of journey), autobiography (1957) * ''Sirr Shahrazad'' (Sheherazade's secret), play (1958) * ''Malik al-majd'' (King of glory), play (1961) * ''Li-man al-rabi'?'' (Who owns spring), short stories (1963) * ''Silsilat qisas li-I-ashbal'' (A series of stories for young ones), children's literature (1963–65), 3 volumes * ''Intifadat al- 'asafir'' (The sparrow's uprising), short stories (1991) * ''Sukkan al-tabiq al- 'ulwi'' (The people upstairs), novel (1996)

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* * 1923 births 2015 deaths Palestinian short story writers Palestinian dramatists and playwrights Palestinian women dramatists and playwrights Palestinian Christians 20th-century Palestinian women writers 20th-century Palestinian writers 21st-century Palestinian women writers 21st-century Palestinian writers Palestinian expatriates in Lebanon Palestinian expatriates in the United Kingdom Palestinian expatriates in Canada Women educators {{Palestine-writer-stub